Teaching Adult Immigrants with Limited Formal Education
Teaching Adult Immigrants with Limited Formal Education

Author: Joy Kreeft Peyton

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2020-07-07

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1788927001

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Adult migrants who received little or no formal education in their home countries face a unique set of challenges when attempting to learn the languages of their new countries. Few adult migrants with limited or no literacy in their native languages successfully attain higher levels of literacy in their additional languages, even if they attain high levels of oral proficiency. This book, the result of a European- and United States-wide collaborative research project, aims to assist teachers working with adult migrants to address this attainment gap and help students reach the highest possible levels of literacy in their new languages. The chapters provide the latest research-informed evidence on the acquisition of linguistic competence and the development of reading in a new language by adults. The book concludes with a chapter that addresses the challenges and opportunities faced by this group of learners and their teachers, with specific instructional strategies that can be used. The book will be an invaluable resource for teachers, tutors and training providers, as well as volunteers, who work with adult migrants.

Education, Immigration and Migration
Education, Immigration and Migration

Author: Khalid Arar

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-07-10

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1787560465

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This edited volume investigates how the role of leadership in education in various countries from around the world have been designed and implemented through educational policies and national cultures to meet the needs of new, displaced, and mobile groups of migrants and refugees.

Adult Learning in a Migration Society
Adult Learning in a Migration Society

Author: Chad Hoggan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-29

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1000488322

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Migration is an old, perhaps perpetual, phenomenon. Currently, it is an urgent challenge involving huge numbers of people who leave their home in search of a better life. Differences in language, customs, and norms are often joined by specific manifestations of xenophobia born of particular differences between host countries and their current influx of migrants. In a pronounced way, then, migration reveals important societal questions・of solidarity, of identity, of transition and transformation, of human rights and obligations. The explorations in this collection highlight individual stories of migrants, showcase innovative research methods, and explore concepts and theories that might be usefully applied toward learning needs in a migration society. Including insights from scholars across 14 different countries, this book offers an international perspective on the role of adult education in addressing migration. Such international comparisons hold great potential for seeing new possibilities in any single country, whether in Europe, North America, or across the world.

The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States
The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States

Author: Terrence Wiley

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2009-10-28

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1847693806

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The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States draws from quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to inform educational policy and practice. It is based on cutting-edge research and policy analyses from a number of well-known experts on immigrant language minority education in the USA. The collection includes contributions on the acquisition of English, language shift, the maintenance of heritage languages, prospects for long-term educational achievement, how family background, economic status, and gender and identity influence academic adjustment and achievement, challenges for appropriate language testing and placement, and examples of advocacy action research. It concludes with a thoughtful commentary aimed at broadening our understanding of the need to provide quality immigrant language minority education within the context of globalization. This collection will be of value to students and researchers interested in promoting educational equity and achievement for immigrant language minority students.

Handbook of Research on Promoting Social Justice for Immigrants and Refugees Through Active Citizenship and Intercultural Education
Handbook of Research on Promoting Social Justice for Immigrants and Refugees Through Active Citizenship and Intercultural Education

Author: Isabel Maria Gomez Barreto

Publisher: Information Science Reference

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781799872832

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"This book presents an overview of immigration, refugees, social justice, and intercultural education offering theoretical frameworks and recent results of empirical research on issues such as the increase in migration and how governments and educational entities are approaching ensuing issues in the host communities"--

Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning
Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning

Author: Julia Menard-Warwick

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1847692133

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This ethnographic study of a California English as a Second Language program explores how the gendered life experiences of immigrant adults shape their participation in both the English language classroom and the education of their children, within the contemporary sociohistorical context of Latin American immigration to the United States.

Disrupting Adult and Community Education
Disrupting Adult and Community Education

Author: Robert C. Mizzi

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1438460937

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Honorable Mention, 2017 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Professional, Continuing, and/or Online Education presented by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association This groundbreaking book critiques the boundaries of where adult education takes place through a candid examination of teaching, learning, and working practices in the social periphery. Lives in this context are diverse and made through complex practices that take place in the shadows of formal systems: on streetscapes and farms, in vehicles and homes, and through underground networks. Educators may be family members, friends, or colleagues, and the curriculum may be based on needs, interests, histories, and cultural practices. The case studies presented here analyze adult education in the lives of sex workers, LGBTQ activists, undocumented migrants, disabled workers, homeless youth, immigrants, inmates, and others. Focusing on learning at the social margins, this book challenges readers to reconceptualize local, national, and transnational adult education practices in light of neoliberalism and globalization.